By Nutrition Diva |
In my recent episode on Nutrition Tips for Night Shift Workers, I talked about the ways in which working nights can contribute to obesity and other health problems. 
One of the things I didn’t address was the fact that people who work nights also often work 12-hour shifts instead of the usual 8-hour stint.
A new study from the University of Maryland suggests that the length of the typical night shift may be just as a big a problem as the timing of it. Whether you’re working days or nights, a twelve-hour shift leaves precious little time for everything else that has to fit into your day–like exercise, family and leisure time, shopping and preparing meals, personal and household business, and sleep–before you’re due back at work. Night shift work is obviously here to stay. But shorter shifts could be a way to mitigate the damage.
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